Dorthea Lauren Allegra Lapkus (born September 6, 1985) is an American actress and comedian, best known for portraying Dee Dee in the NBC sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? and Susan Fischer in the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.She has also made appearances on such television shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Middle, Hot in Cleveland, and @midnight.She is also known for her many podcast appearances, including Comedy Bang! Bang!, improv4humans, and her own podcast With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus.She was a main cast member on the TBS original sitcom Clipped.

After almost a year in Los Angeles, Lapkus began landing roles in a number of commercials, including Snickers and Jack in the Box as well as a sketch on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.From these successes, she got herself representation and during pilot season landed a supporting role in the short lived Are You There, Chelsea?.
After self-taping her audition, Lapkus was cast as security guard Susan Fischer on the first and second seasons of the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. In 2015, Lapkus and the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
In 2014, Lapkus launched her own podcast on the Earwolf network, called With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus. The show's premise is that each week her guest is the host of their own podcast, and she is appearing as a character on their show. Her guests have included Paul F. Tompkins, Betsy Sodaro, Andy Daly, Nick Kroll, and Scott Aukerman.She has said that she "never expected to get into podcasts at all" and to her it is funny she has one.
In mid-2014, Lapkus was cast in Jurassic World, which she filmed in both Hawaii and New Orleans.Many of her scenes with Jake Johnson were improvisedIn 2015, she portrayed Joy the receptionist in TBS's Clipped. In 2016, Lapkus wrote and starred in her own 30-minute episode of the sketch show Netflix Presents: The Characters.
Lapkus performs improv regularly. She is a cast member of UCB's flagship show Asssscat.

The 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, California 

 

Hollywood Reporter and Sag-Aftra Emmy Nominees Night, Beverly Hills 14.09.2017

 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, HBO Party, Los Angeles 17.09.2017